About Me
Hi, I’m Josiah. I do a lot of different things, like music, programming, real estate investing, and stock trading. I also do some weird stuff like travel hacking, international diversification, and random other adventures like mountaineering and scuba diving. This site mostly serves as a springboard to my other projects (see below), though I hope to also use it as an anchor for my quantified self activities.
Life Ambitions
- To be involved in interesting projects and businesses all the time
- To be able to explore interesting places and do interesting things
- To be involved in the lives of other people like my grandparents were, mentoring and offering support wherever I can, and learning from others as I go
Current Projects
- Easycators: my ThinkOrSwim download site featuring indicators and such
- German language
- Multiple citizenships
- Another round-the-world trip, this time with my wife Tiffany
- Various quantified self pursuits while working on fat loss, muscle growth, and improving sleep
- A travel, investing, and personal development blog
History
- Born August 19th, 1983 in Charleston, WV
- Had free-spirited parents and moved all over the U.S. while growing up
- Learned to code in AppleSoft BASIC on my grandmother’s Apple IIgs at around 10-11 years old
- Spent most of my formative years on a hillside farm driving tractors, moving mountains, felling trees, and building things
- Spent my teen years learning music, being a worship leader, touring and singing harmony with all-vocal music groups, and finally launching a band called The Redding Brothers in 2003
- To help the band, I learned some basic web development with CMS like Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal
- Traveled to 10 countries with the band in 2008
- Passed real estate exam and got license in 2009, soon after the market crashed. Bought a few investment properties.
- Eventually went back to college in 2011
- Traveled around the globe in 2012 with my brother Micah, visiting 14 countries and meeting 1 Peruvian leprechaun
- Finished college in August 2013, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Information Systems
- While in college, I started learning about technical day trading in stocks and other markets
- After college, I finished grad school in a year in 2014 with an M.S. in Computer Information Systems
- Have been trading, managing rental properties, and working on various web development projects ever since
Philosophy
- A different take on Christianity
- Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
- Austrian / Mengerian Economics – link1 | link2 | link3
Trivia
- I’m a PK / preacher’s kid
- Lived in 6 different states, multiple times: WV, OR, WA, OH, OK, TN
- My family lived in the loft of a barn for 3 months one winter when I was a kid
- Certified advanced open water diver
- I play one computer game only: Starcraft
- Travel experience in 48 U.S. states, 29 countries, 6 continents, and multiple war zones
- I’ve healed headaches, made it snow for Christmas, and seen a leprechaun 🙂
- Josiah = Yoshiyahu = יֹאשִׁיָהוּ = “Yahweh heals”
Personality
- INFJ ?
- Type 4 Enneagram ?
Stalk Me
- Personal Twitter – Thinkorswim Twitter
- Personal Facebook – Thinkorswim Facebook
- Thinkorswim Youtube
- Personal Google+ – Thinkorswim Google+
- MyFitnessPal
- Fitbit
- GoodReads
- TripIt
- Vimeo
- Flickr
My Fitness Goals
You can read more about my story, and see my progress, at MyFitnessPal.
Visiting Every Country on Earth: My Travel Map
Countries I’ve Visited So Far:
- USA
- All 48 contiguous states
- Puerto Rico
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Ontario
- Quebec
- UK
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Armenia
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Italy
- Spain
- Egypt
- Djibouti
- Jordan
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
- Qatar
- Bahrain
- Kuwait
- Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Russia
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Nepal
- Bangladesh
- Chile
- Peru
- Mexico
The Continuing Adventures
Written by Josiah